Intercultural transmission in the medieval Mediterranean / edited by Stephanie L. Hathaway and David W. Kim.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hathaway, Stephanie L., editor.

Kim, David W. (David William), editor.

Series:

Cultural histories series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intercultural communication--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500.

Intercultural communication.

Mediterranean Region--History--476-1517.

Mediterranean Region.

Civilization, Medieval.

Cultural History (History).

History.

Medieval History (History).

Medieval Literature.

Local Subjects:

Cultural History (History).

History.

Medieval History (History).

Medieval Literature.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 219 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2012.

Summary:

This volume presents evidence of the extent and effects of intercultural contacts across Europe and the Mediterranean rim, opening up a new understanding of early medieval civilisation and its continuing influence in both Western and Eastern cultures today. From the perspectives of textual transmission, cultural memory, religion, art and cultural traditions, this work explores the central question of how ideas travelled in the medieval world, challenging the conventional notion of insular communities in the Middle Ages. Despite the schism between East and West that took hold after the thirteenth century this volume reveals a rich and extensive cultural exchange and demonstrates that transmission of ideas and culture across borders began much earlier than the Crusades. It contributes to new perspectives on medieval cities, Christian Europe's history with the Byzantine and Islamic Mediterranean, the landscape of power and the power-plays of the medieval Church, and the way in which cross-cultural transmission affected all of these areas.

Contents:

Faith and Spirituality. Thomasine Metamorphosis : Community, Text, and Transmission from Greek to Coptic / David W. Kim (University of Edinburgh, UK) ; St Michael of Chonai and the Tenacity of Paganism / Alan Cadwallader (Australian Catholic University)

Chivalry. Medieval Persian Chivalry and Mysticism / Milad Milani (University of Western Sydney, Australia) ; From Knight to Chevalier : Chivalry in the chanson de geste Material from Aquitaine to Germany / Stephanie L. Hathaway (University of Oxford, UK)

Love and Literature. Humour and Sexuality : Twelfth-Century Troubadours and Medieval Arabic Poetry / Jerońimo Meńdez (University of Valencia, Spain) ; Ladies, Lovers and Lais : A Comparison of Some Byzantine Romances with the Anglo-Norman Guigemar / Andrew Stephenson (University of Melbourne, Australia) ; Performance and Reception of Greek Tragedy in the Early Medieval Mediterranean / Amelia R. Brown (University of Queensland, Australia)

Material Culture. The Urban Language of Early Constantinople : The Changing Roles of the Arts and Architecture in the Formation of the New Capital and the New Consciousness / Gordana Korolija Fontana-Giusti (University of Kent, UK) ; There and Back Again : Cross-cultural Transmission of Clothing and Clothing Terminology / Timothy Dawson (independent scholar).

Notes:

Online resource; description from resource and publisher's metadata (viewed on 10 November 2020).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472598936

1472598938

OCLC:

818116970

Publisher Number:

159817

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.